_Duchess._ O God in heaven! And have you brought it even to this? _Wallenstein._ In Holland You'll find protection. _Duchess._ In a Lutheran country? 125 What? And you send us into Lutheran countries? _Wallenstein._ Duke Franz of Lauenburg conducts you thither. _Duchess._ Duke Franz of Lauenburg? The ally of Sweden, the Emperor's enemy. _Wallenstein._ The Emperor's enemies are mine no longer. 130 _Duchess (casting a look of terror on the Duke and the Countess)._ Is it then true? It is. You are degraded? Deposed from the command? O God in heaven! _Countess (aside to the Duke)._ Leave her in this belief. Thou seest she cannot Support the real truth. LINENOTES: [26] _fear_ 1800, 1828, 1829. [48] from] _for_ 1800, 1828, 1829. [56] _him_ 1800, 1828, 1829. [95] Have I for this-- [_Stops suddenly, repressing himself._ 1800, 1828, 1829. [After 101] [_He recollects himself._ 1800, 1828, 1829. [118] Kärn 1800. [123] _that_ 1800, 1828, 1829. SCENE V _To them enter COUNT TERTSKY._ _Countess._ --Tertsky! What ails him? What an image of affright! He looks as he had seen a ghost. _Tertsky (leading Wallenstein aside)._ Is it thy command that all the Croats-- _Wallenstein._ Mine! 5 _Tertsky._ We are betrayed. _Wallenstein._ What? _Tertsky._ They are off! This night The Jägers likewise--all the villages In the whole round are empty. _Wallenstein._ Isolani? _Tertsky._ Him thou hast sent away. Yes, surely. _Wallenstein._ I? _Tertsky._ No! Hast thou not sent him off? Nor Deodate? 10 They are vanished both of them. SCENE VI _To them enter ILLO._ _Illo._ Has Tertsky told thee? _Tertsky._ He knows all. _Illo._ And likewise That Esterhatzy, Goetz, Maradas, Kaunitz, Kolatto, Palfi, have forsaken thee? _Tertsky._ Damnation! _Wallenstein (winks at them)._ Hush! _Countess (who has been watching them anxiously from the distance and now advances to them)._ Tertsky! Heaven! What is it? What has happened? 5 _Wallenstein (scarcely suppressing his emotions)._ Nothing! let us be gone! _Tertsky (following him)._ Theresa, it is nothing. _Countess (holding him back)._ Nothing? Do I not see, that all the lifeblood Has left your cheeks--look you not like a ghost? That even my brother but affects a calmness? 10 _Page (enters)._ An Aid-de-Camp enquires for the Count Tertsky. [_TERTSKY follows the Page._